Are you are able to recognise conditions that require treatment in neonates?

There are a vast number of conditions that can affect a newborn baby and require treatment. It is essential that midwives are able to assess and evaluate the newborn and recognise such conditions, to ensure that they receive the specialist care required. Midwives also play an important role supporting women in taking responsibility for the assessment of their newborn baby. Encouraging parents to assess their baby's physical health will ensure an accurate account of the neonates' wellbeing. Midwives must offer women a direct approach to caring for their baby promoting ownership for the parents and maintaining high standards of neonatal care.

Ensure that you have the most up to date information at your fingertips with BJM's Neonatal Care supplement.

These are just a few of the issues addressed in this supplement published by BJM:

• How can midwives encourage parental ownership of neonatal care?
• How have government initiatives played a role in the empowerment of women in neonatal care?
• What are the reasons mothers give birth to large babies? How can midwives manage these babies effectively? 
• How is neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) characterized by physical signs?
• What are the medium- and long-term effects on infants exposed to drugs in utero?
• How can NAS be managed during pregnancy and treated postnatally?
• How can liver disease be recognised in jaundiced infants?
• How can conjugated and unconjugated hyperbilirubinaemia be differentiated?
• What causes neonatal liver disease?
• What is the preferred route for giving newborn babies vitamin K?
• What factors influence parental consent of vitamin K?

Do not miss out on this exclusive Neonatal Care Supplement brought to you by British Journal of Midwifery, the leading clinical journal for midwives. Published each month, the journal is written by midwives for midwives and peer reviewed by some of the foremost authorities in the profession. It contains the best clinical reviews, original research and evidence-based articles available, and ensures that midwives are kept fully up-to-date with the latest developments taking place in clinical practice.